Trafficked
- Editorial
- Immigration
Immigration problems are laid bare, time for real solutions
Sustained investigative reporting has unveiled wide-reaching problems in our immigration system, the government response will be closely watched.
- The Herald's View
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- Exclusive
- Home Truths
‘Millions on planes’: Boat focus blinded Home Affairs to real abuses, says Nixon
Former top cop Christine Nixon reveals that, as rorters and criminals flooded the visa system, the authorities went missing.
- Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
- Exclusive
- Human trafficking
Alleged sex trafficking boss deported over underground prostitution network
Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.
- Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
‘Party’s over for rorters’: Government cracks down on visa scams
Private colleges will be banned from paying commissions to education agents who poach students from rival institutions in a sweeping crackdown on visa rorting.
- Matthew Knott
- Exclusive
- Human trafficking
Hundreds caught up in crackdown on sex trafficking, organised crime
Almost two dozen women have been intercepted at the border on suspicion of being brought into the country as part of sex-trafficking operations.
- Marta Pascual Juanola
- Exclusive
- Human trafficking
Fake schools, fake students: Criminals make mockery of education visas
A secret review of the immigration system shows how some criminal syndicates own every step of the chain to game the education visa process and gain access to the country.
- Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
- Exclusive
- Christine Nixon
‘Grotesque abuses’: Secret review of migration system scathing of failures
Poor management of the nation’s already inadequate immigration and visa laws and a focus on stopping boat arrivals has allowed organised crime syndicates to flourish.
- Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
- Exclusive
- Christine Nixon
‘Tough as nails’: Former top cop to helm sex, drug trafficking inquiry
Traffickers and people exploiting foreign workers have been rorting Australia’s migration system to ply their trades. Now former chief commissioner Christine Nixon will conduct an inquiry.
- Nick McKenzie
- Investigation
- Human trafficking
Trafficked: An international investigation
A global human trafficking syndicate has exploited flaws in Australian border security and the immigration system that allowed it to run a national illegal sex racket.
- Exclusive
- Immigration
Immigration taskforce to hit visa criminals after trafficking investigation
A new taskforce will target criminals exploiting the migration system after revelations of widespread visa rorting, foreign worker exploitation and drug crime.
- Nick McKenzie
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